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I drink no more than a sponge.

Francois Rabelais

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Francois Rabelais
Died: 1553
Died: April 9
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What harm in learning and getting knowledge even from a sot, a pot, a fool, a mitten, or a slipper. [Fr., Que nuist savoir tousjours et tousjours apprendre, fust ce D'un sot, d'une pot, d'une que--doufle D'un mouffe, d'un pantoufle.]
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Tell the truth and shame the devil.
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Wait a second while I take a swig off this bottle: it's my true and only Helicon, my Caballine fount, my sole Enthusiasm. Here, drinking, I deliberate, I reason, I resolve and conclude. After the epilogue I laugh, I write, I compose, I drink. Ennius drinking would write, writing would drink.
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Plain as a nose in a man's face.
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A good intention does not mean honor. [Fr., A bon entendeur ne faut qu'un parole.]
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Let every one be fully convinced in his own mind.
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Nature abhors a vacuum.
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The belly has no ears nor is it to be filled with fair words.
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